Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,786 playable programmes from the BBC

Cars, Cops and Criminals

Series 1

Episode 2: Casting the Net

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One WalesLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland

Three-part series examining the changing face of car theft, narrated by Jamie Theakston.

Specialist crime squads from all over Britain come together for the first time to tackle organised car theft gangs, using new technology and tactics.

Joining the ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) squads, the police show how a device used to track down terrorists is also used to catch drug dealers and car thieves, as well as those driving without tax or insurance. And how one campaigning MP managed to clone Gordon Brown's official number plate. Show less

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More